Example sentences of "he [verb] on to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He passed on to an empty table .
2 As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers .
3 He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount .
4 From Ireland he moved on to the Outer Hebrides , which he reached on 30 August , and then to his most northerly landfall , Foula off the Shetlands , on 3 September .
5 With true teen anger he latches on to the witty cynicism of the two Lenny 's , Cohen and Bruce , but fires them up with youthful vitriol .
6 Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot .
7 Lord Romsey , of Hampshire , found himself issued with a £40 fixed penalty and a ‘ severe ticking-off ’ after he drove on to the hard shoulder to join the M271 near Southampton .
8 After the first player has had his turn , he hands on to the second player .
9 He climbed on to the high stool , acutely conscious of the heat of the stove and the growling dogs behind him .
10 However , Newell made amends in the 64th minute when he raced on to a hopeful through ball , rounded Hitchcock and fired home .
11 As he walked on to the first tee he could n't get any proper words out at all , and so I was frightened to speak to him in case he thought I was teasing him .
12 The eminent Spaniard took 7 at the first hole of the Novo Sancti Petri course , of which he is the architect , and finished his first round ten shots behind Ireland 's Des Smyth who had not seen the course until he stepped on to the first tee .
13 When he stepped on to the seventh tee he was five shots clear of all challengers and the title was safely under lock and key .
14 He stepped on to the busy road and dragged badly injured Scott clear of the traffic .
15 When he gets on to the old antibiotics he
16 He hung on to the semicircular rail around the outer edge , where they were standing because the businessmen who had got in after them had jostled them there , and she saw that his eyes were closed and that he had gone gray with fear about the drop .
17 Exhausted , he collapsed on to the unmade bed , fell asleep , but still woke the next morning at four thirty .
18 He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’
19 He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’
20 Then he went on to a merciless performance as an inarticulate Garda , who had been called to the school to deliver the annual lecture on road safety .
21 In 1921 he went on to the Technical College at Bandung , founded only the previous year .
22 The first few days were very trying for Alan as he went on to the new regime suddenly rather than gradually .
23 Then he went on to the Global the New Consumer , looking at ways and how consumer power could be used for ethical purposes .
24 He went on to the Royal Naval College , Dartmouth , for two years before poor eyesight ended plans for a naval career , and he returned to Eton .
25 The victim , who has not yet been named , died instantly when he fell on to the middle lane of an unlit section of the M25 between Merstham and Reigate , Surrey .
26 Erm then he moves on to the middle peasants erm they 're similar , I mean once again they , they 've got enough to eat , they are , they are n't under as much stress , I mean th th they can su survive and so the idea of them risking all to support a revolution would be very er you know very risky at the time at the beginning er the opening period erm so once again th th I 'd say their conclusion is afraid not , you know , I wo n't join a peasant association , i it wo n't last .
27 He slipped on to the cold floor .
28 The moment he emerged on to a flat stretch of road after negotiating a particularly tight corner the explanation was obvious .
29 When he emerged on to the vast concourse he saw Kuhlmann standing at the entrance to one of the platforms opposite the ticket office .
30 One morning he batted on to an unbeaten hundred .
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